Some days ago I wrote Paul making some questions, one of which was if he had ever played a Red Special (that would be awesome and it would be amazing that Brian could give Paul one). My personal Olympus had two golden gods in the same place. It would be a dream come true having Paul and Brian playing together.

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Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:17 am

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Re: .* * Mr. Big, World Tour 2011 Thread * *.

After having seen them in LA in April, i just saw them again at the Paris gig. They sounded MUCH better, and all of them had so much fire and energy, except for pat torpey, who seemed to be dying of pain back behind the kit, i almost thought he was gonna drop dead. He really seemed to be struggling to play, even though he was as solid as ever.

Mr Big? I went tonight (20 Sep) to see them at Shepherds Bush Empire. Amazing band. Amazing, amazing musicianship.I had only seen them on YouTube previously, but I am fairly familiar with their old material.I was blown away. In the flesh, their fire and skill and precision are even more astounding. I was smiling the whole time.Truthfully this totally humbles me ... I could practice from now until 2020 and I would still not be able to play like Paul Gilbert.Magnificent.If you get the chance to see them on their current tour, don't pass it up. If you want to see a real rock band, and pinnacle rock musicianship -- it does not get better than this !!Bri

He went to see Paul at the House of Blues and ironically Richie Kotzen was opener for that show and Pat was playing drums with him so Billy was there and it was an inevitable situation – Paul said “hey you guys want to jam”. They played the old cover song we used to play “30 days in the hole” by Humble Pie, and the crowd goes nuts and Paul looks over at Richie who was singing and envisaged me being there and he gave me a call a couple of days later, like it was his idea you know, putting the band back together. So the initial spark was seeing Pat in Italy a few years ago.

Just wanted to say that London was awesome, really really awesome. Being right up front, in front of Paul and his amps was just crazy. His tone was huuuuge. Also managed to play a bit of bass for Billy

The show where Eric had voice problems and didn't sing (Prague?) would've been an awesome one to have gone to.Not because of no Eric Martin, more to see who would sing which song. Pat has got a great voice and it would be awesome to hear him actually sing a few.

Did anyone from the board go to this show? I'm guessing not as no one has mentioned it?

Man that sucks for the people who really wanted to see the *full* band.

Billy did say that before the show everybody was offered a full refund if they left but not one person left!I think if that was the only show on the tour that I'd seen, I would have been a bit disappointed but it would've been awesome in addition to seeing a full band show!

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